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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1487: We Remembered Some Guys

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2020

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the Red Sox firing Alex Cora, the Twins signing Josh Donaldson, an uptick in online player pettiness, fans taunting the visiting Astros, and a baseball-themed Jeopardy! clue. Then (22:30) Ben and Sam Miller banter about baseball fandom as a form of family bonding and the appeal of Remembering Some Guys and conclude by remembering something about each of the players who just appeared for the first time on the Hall of Fame ballot.

Audio intro: The Walkmen, "Another One Goes By"
Audio interstitial: Jenny Lewis, "Just One of the Guys"
Audio outro: Chance The Rapper (Feat. Death Cab for Cutie), "Do You Remember"

Link to Red Sox announcement
Link to post about Minor
Link to Jay’s ballot breakdowns
Link to David’s video series
Link to order The MVP Machine

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0:00.0

I don't know what you are, I don't believe I can only

0:09.2

Another one goes, and I'm the one who loves me

0:19.2

Sometimes when I step outside, I see it's been me riding on me

0:25.8

Another one goes, and I'm the one who loves me

0:34.2

Hello and welcome to episode 1487 of Effectively Wild Me

0:40.0

baseball podcast from Bambrafts presented by our Patreon supporters

0:44.3

I am Ben Lerberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of Biggrafs, so the Meg

0:48.8

Hello

0:49.8

It has been a wild week thus far, and so we are presenting our podcasting

0:55.1

kind of out of order, so Sam and I recorded a non-time sensitive episode

1:00.9

on Monday before the Astros report came out

1:04.4

Then we bumped that back a bit, put it on the back burner, so that you and I could discuss that report

1:10.7

That episode is already out, most of this episode is going to be

1:15.3

what Sam and I recorded on Monday, but since we recorded our last episode together

1:21.1

there's been more big news, and so we felt that we had to step in and record a new

1:26.3

introduction to this episode that would cover that, so it's been a sequencing

1:31.8

issue, but I think hopefully things will settle down a little

1:35.8

and we can just continue to record in order after this

1:39.6

Anyway, the big news that we are here to talk about is twofold, the Red Sox, fired Alex Kora

1:46.6

and the twins signed the last Star Level for Agent Available Josh Dahlenson

1:52.2

So with Kora, this was inevitable as soon as the Astros report came out and detailed

1:59.5

all of the ways that Kora contributed to the Astros Signed Stealing efforts, and presumably

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